Focus & Equip (2009.03): Target your strengths
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1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
What are your options for achieving your goals?
You’re coaching Tomoko, a leadership developer based in Cambodia who wants to clarify God’s calling. She’s made good progress. She’s developed a mission statement, identified 6 goals she needs to accomplish in order to carry out her mission, and reflected on what’s already been accomplished for each of her goals. During her last coaching session, she reflected on what helps and hinders her in achieving her goals. Read more...
Protocols made more accessible
Protocols (sets of questions) help Christian leaders to empower others. Close the Gap Now had made its protocols more accessible by adding a protocol category in 6 different blogs:
Focus on mission, results, and measures
Want to achieve your God-given mission? Then focus on 3 things:
Target your strengths
Imagine you’re a basketball coach. You have a player who scores 27 points per game, shoots 46% from the 3-point line, and gets 14 rebounds per game. You’re pleased with his performance.
But you’re puzzled. Read more...
Ask questions to provide accountability
Question: During staff meetings, how can you provide accountability and provoke reflection?
Answer: By asking questions. Read more...
Use the 1-2-3-2-1 lesson model
You want to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. But you’re having difficulty developing an effective lesson plan.
Question: Is there a lesson model that can help?
Answer: Yes! You can use Harold Klassen’s 1-2-3-2-1 lesson model. Read more...
Develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum
Want to use your curriculum to help students develop a Christ-centered worldview? Reflecting on the following 7 questions can help:
What 3 engaging instructional strategies will you use?
You’re focused on helping your students develop a Christ-centered worldview. During class, you want to help your students connect Biblical principles and what they study.
Question: What 3 engaging instructional strategies will you use? Read more...
To empower others to consider a question they will ask students, DRAW them out
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What question do you want to ask your students?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
A case for quality faith integrated assessments
Dan Beerens, vice president of
learning services at Christian Schools
International, focuses on Christian
education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In
this blog entry, he makes a case for quality faith
integrated assessments.
If one of the most important things in a Christian school is to nurture faith through the ability of a student to apply a Christian perspective (or worldview) to contemporary life, then we should make sure that our assessments are top notch and will drive our instruction. Additionally we need to make sure that the assessments involve the higher level thinking skills of application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Read more...
To empower others to meet student learning needs, DRAW them out
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can we meet student learning needs?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
What are your options for achieving your goals?
You’re coaching Tomoko, a leadership developer based in Cambodia who wants to clarify God’s calling. She’s made good progress. She’s developed a mission statement, identified 6 goals she needs to accomplish in order to carry out her mission, and reflected on what’s already been accomplished for each of her goals. During her last coaching session, she reflected on what helps and hinders her in achieving her goals. Read more...
Protocols made more accessible
Protocols (sets of questions) help Christian leaders to empower others. Close the Gap Now had made its protocols more accessible by adding a protocol category in 6 different blogs:
- Empower Others
- Work Smart
- Target Biblical Perspective
- Use Questions
- Use Assessment
- Meet Learning Needs
Focus on mission, results, and measures
Want to achieve your God-given mission? Then focus on 3 things:
- Your mission statement.
- The results you need to achieve your mission.
- The measures that tell you if you’ve achieved the desired results. Read more...
Target your strengths
Imagine you’re a basketball coach. You have a player who scores 27 points per game, shoots 46% from the 3-point line, and gets 14 rebounds per game. You’re pleased with his performance.
But you’re puzzled. Read more...
Ask questions to provide accountability
Question: During staff meetings, how can you provide accountability and provoke reflection?
Answer: By asking questions. Read more...
Use the 1-2-3-2-1 lesson model
You want to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. But you’re having difficulty developing an effective lesson plan.
Question: Is there a lesson model that can help?
Answer: Yes! You can use Harold Klassen’s 1-2-3-2-1 lesson model. Read more...
Develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum
Want to use your curriculum to help students develop a Christ-centered worldview? Reflecting on the following 7 questions can help:
- What’s the goal?
- Regarding developing a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
- What’s your stakeholders’ perspective of a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum? Read more...
What 3 engaging instructional strategies will you use?
You’re focused on helping your students develop a Christ-centered worldview. During class, you want to help your students connect Biblical principles and what they study.
Question: What 3 engaging instructional strategies will you use? Read more...
To empower others to consider a question they will ask students, DRAW them out
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What question do you want to ask your students?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
- In one of your classes, what are your students studying?
- What connections are your students making between what they study and what the Bible teaches? Read more...
A case for quality faith integrated assessments
If one of the most important things in a Christian school is to nurture faith through the ability of a student to apply a Christian perspective (or worldview) to contemporary life, then we should make sure that our assessments are top notch and will drive our instruction. Additionally we need to make sure that the assessments involve the higher level thinking skills of application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Read more...
To empower others to meet student learning needs, DRAW them out
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can we meet student learning needs?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
- What are your students like?
- What are your students studying?
- What connections are your students making between what they study and what the Bible teaches? Read more...